Then so is every other major program not in the SEC over the last decade. But with a school like OSU you expect to compete for the NC. Of course most years you won't get there, or even a BCS bowl, but going into the season the team should be thinking championship.

I'd rather have the high goals and fail than hope my team made a bowl game. Consolation prizes of Big Ten titles and some BCS bowls isn't bad either.

I don't know. Maybe the highly ranked recruiting classes, many conference titles, and the cost of hiring a coach like Urban that brings along expectations of its own. A 12-0 season last year with most of the team returning. A pretty easy looking conference schedule, and no one out of conference next year. Plenty of reasons to expect to compete for it.

You can root for failure and laugh at the fans that expect to compete for titles, and most of the time you'll be right. But at least I'm rooting for my schools success not another's failure.

I don't know. Maybe the highly ranked recruiting classes, many conference titles, and the cost of hiring a coach like Urban that brings along expectations of its own. A 12-0 season last year with most of the team returning. A pretty easy looking conference schedule, and no one out of conference next year. Plenty of reasons to expect to compete for it.

You can root for failure and laugh at the fans that expect to compete for titles, and most of the time you'll be right. But at least I'm rooting for my schools success not another's failure.

I'm not rooting for Ohio State to fail. I'm from Ohio, so I generally would prefer to see them do well than otherwise, particularly versus the SEC, of which I hate almost as much as I like my team.

But it is a bit of a laugh to hear Buckeye fans talk about their football program like it's still 1970.

They may have cause to be thinking about a national championship THIS year. But every year? That's ridiculous.

High expectations is two titles in five years or three in ten year. I don't know how anyone can expect a championship every year. As a fan of a school who has also only one won championship in my lifetime, I'd have given up on college football a long time ago if I went into every season expecting a title.

High expectations is two titles in five years or three in ten year. I don't know how anyone can expect a championship every year. As a fan of a school who has also only one won championship in my lifetime, I'd have given up on college football a long time ago if I went into every season expecting a title.

Expecting a title and expecting to be competitive for a title are two very different things. There's a bunch of programs that should expect to compete for it, of course only one will.

3rd/4th/5th-string DL Kenny Wilkins is leaving Michigan. That leaves only nine of 27 players remaining on the team from Rich Rodriguez's 2010 recruiting class. Only five of those nine players has received any sort of meaningful playing time.

On serious note, it's good the divisions start in 2014. If it was this year, the West would be hilaribad all around with Nebraska likely steam rolling everyone and only Wisconsin having a fighting chance.

Actually, that's probably how most seasons will go with Nebraska and Bucky switching off on the yearly pounding.

On serious note, it's good the divisions start in 2014. If it was this year, the West would be hilaribad all around with Nebraska likely steam rolling everyone and only Wisconsin having a fighting chance.

Actually, that's probably how most seasons will go with Nebraska and Bucky switching off on the yearly pounding.

I think Northwestern has a really good shot at winning the legends division this year, and I'm usually pretty anti-Northwestern.

On serious note, it's good the divisions start in 2014. If it was this year, the West would be hilaribad all around with Nebraska likely steam rolling everyone and only Wisconsin having a fighting chance.

Actually, that's probably how most seasons will go with Nebraska and Bucky switching off on the yearly pounding.

Nah, not forever. We will compete randomly every couple years, but I don't have much confidence in our offense at this point to say going forward we will be in good shape.

At least Ferentz will keep on winning Coach of the Year titles because apparently the award is for mediocrity.

The fact that a coach that took a team with a losing record and then went undefeated wasn't COTY indicates how much of a ******* joke the B1G awards are. It's like one big PC every body gets a trophy circle jerk.